Police across the country are using military-grade arms and equipment left over from U.S. wars. CNN's BrianTodd reports.

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In the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown three years ago, former President Barack Obama reformed a program that transferred military equipment and weapons to local police departments. Now, PresidentDonald Trump promises to reverse that. RT’s Marina Portnaya reports.
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"A 94-year-old German who worked as a bookkeeper at the Auschwitz death camp has been convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people and sentenced to four years in prison, in what could be one of the last big Holocaust trials."
A Final Effort to FindNaziWar Criminals
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"You can't hide from justice forever-not even for war crimes committed decades in the past, and not even when you're 93."
Should We Continue to Prosecute Nazi War Criminals?
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On August 9th, 2014 a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. The death of Brown fueled days of unrest in Ferguson. Protestors took to the streets and were met with heavily armed police officers in armored vehicles. It wasn’t long before Ferguson, a town of 21,000, resembled a war zone. This week’s VICE Meets is a conversation about the militarization of America’s police force, with journalist and author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko.
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Economist Olugbenga Ajilore shows the high cost of the American government’s arming of local police with military weapons, which has exacerbated lethal use-of force against black communities
Giving police military weapons doesn’t make anyone safer, argues Toledo University’s Olugbenga Ajilore. It just makes police treat people more like enemy combatants than co-members of the community.
Ajilore discusses the extensive social costs of the increased acquisition of military style-weapons by local law enforcement agencies in the U.S., which has accelerated over the past 10 years, as federal programs have granted access to surplus military items for combating terrorism and drug activity. He cites his research examining the impacts of increased police militarization—including more frequent use of lethal force, and the disproportionate effects on ethnically-fragmented communities.

In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, John Oliver explores the racial inequality in treatment by police as well as the increasing militarization of America’s local police forces.
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US police forces are increasingly using military-style tactics to carry out even the most routine daily operations.
The number of SWAT teams and SWAT-style raids across the county have skyrocketed in the last few decades. SWAT raids occur at an estimated 50,000 raids per year and a majority take place for low-level crimes.
It is a trend that is being propped up by billions of federal dollars in Homeland Security grants and access to free military equipment through the Department of Defense for civilian law enforcement agencies.
In the past, police SWAT teams were only used in extreme circumstances; today, they are increasingly sent out to perform routine tasks.
Nowadays, there are tens of thousands of military-style police raids every year. But only the worst cases make the news.
Fault Lines travels to California and Tennessee to look at the effects of the increasing militarisation of US police departments.
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Missiles playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLECC3BE1B25F14233
On the militarization of space, which is asserted to be inevitable.
Public domain film from the US Air Force, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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The militarisation of space is the placement and development of weaponry and military technology in outer space. The early exploration of space in the mid-20th century had, in part, a military motivation, as theUnited States and the Soviet Union used it as an opportunity to demonstrate ballistic missile technology and other technologies having the potential for military application. Outer space has since been used as an operating location for military spacecraft such as imaging and communications satellites, and some ballistic missiles pass through outer space during their flight. As yet, however, weapons have not been stationed in space, with the exception of the Almaz space station and small handguns carried by Russian cosmonauts (for post-landing, pre-recovery use)...EarlyAmerican efforts included the Nike-Zeus Program, ProjectDefender, the Sentinel Program and the Safeguard Program. The late 1950s Nike-Zeus program involved firing Nike nuclear missiles against oncoming ICBMs, thus exploding nuclear warheads over the North Pole. This idea was soon scrapped and work began on Project Defender in 1958. Project Defender attempted to destroy Soviet ICBMs at launch with satellite weapon systems, which orbited over Russia. This program proved infeasible with the technology from that era. Work then began on the Sentinel Program which used anti-ballistic missiles (ABM) to shoot down incoming ICBMs.
In the late 1950s United States Air Force considered dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon to display U.S. superiority to the Soviet Union and the rest of the world (Project A119). In 1959, a feasibility study of a possible military base on the Moon (Project Horizon) was conducted. In 1958, a plan for a 21-airman underground Air Force base on the Moon by 1968 was developed (Lunex Project).
The Safeguard Program was deployed in the mid-1970s and was based on the Sentinel Program. Since the ABM treaty only allowed for construction of a single ABM facility to protect either the nation's capital city or an ICBM field, the Stanley R. MickelsenSafeguard Complex was constructed near Nekoma, North Dakota to protect the Grand Forks ICBM facility. Though it was only operational as an ABM facility for less than a year, the PerimeterAcquisitionRadar (PAR), one of Safeguard's components, was still operational as of 2005. One major problem with the Safeguard Program, and past ABM systems, was that the interceptor missiles, though state-of-the-art, required nuclear warheads to destroy incoming ICBMs...
In 1983American presidentRonald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a space-based system to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear missiles. The plan was ridiculed by some as unrealistic and expensive, and Dr. Carol Rosin nicknamed the policy "Star Wars", after the popular science-fiction movie franchise. Astronomer Carl Sagan pointed out that in order to defeat SDI, the Soviet Union had only to build more missiles, allowing them to overcome the defense by sheer force of numbers...
United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), a unified command of the United States military was created in 1985 to help institutionalize the use of outer space by the United States Armed Forces... Military space operations coordinated by USSPACECOM proved to be very valuable for the U.S.-led coalition in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
The U.S. military has relied on communications, intelligence, navigation, missile warning and weather satellite systems in areas of conflict since the early 1990s, including the Balkans, Southwest Asia and Afghanistan...
USSRThe Soviet Union was also researching innovative ways of gaining space supremacy. Two of their most notable efforts were the R-36ORB Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) and Polyus orbital weapons system.
The R-36ORB was a Soviet ICBM in the 1960s that, once launched, would go into a low Earth orbit whereupon it would de-orbit for an attack. This system would approach North America over the South Pole, thereby striking targets from the opposite direction from that to which NORAD early warning systems are oriented. The missile was phased out in January 1983 in compliance with the SALT II treaty.
The SALT II treaty (1979) prohibited the deployment of FOBS systems...

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Why did the police start using militarized tactics and equipment on American citizens? Dr. AbbyHall says the line between law enforcement and war is getting dangerously blurry.
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History of Police Militarization(video): Professor Abby Hall explains how the War on Drugs and War on Terror have contributed to police militarization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR0eVxB73iw
What of ‘Posse Comitatus’? (article): Gene Healy explains the blurring lines between police and the military. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/what-posse-comitatus
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko (book): Balko describes the history and implications of police militarization. https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americas/dp/1610394577
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Has World War 3BegunAlready?!
As of Saturday, October 8th, 2016, Russia has deployed what is being deemed as "nuclear-capable Iskander missiles" in Kaliningrad — which is a Russian enclave situated between Poland and Lithuania. Although this is an alleged "military drill," America and NATO are saying otherwise.
In fact, NATO members are gearing up for any "surprise situation" that could occur due to the war games at play. Poland's Defense Minister, Antoni Macierewicz, described Moscow's actions as "very alarming." Linas Linkevicius, foreign minister of Lithuania, made this statement at a Vilnius news briefing: "The deployment not only increases tensions in the region, but also possibly violates international treaties which limit deployment of ballistic missiles of range of over 500 kilometers... This is a usual Russian tactic: escalate tensions, create a discord and then expect concessions elsewhere. I would like to hope that this will not work this time." As a response, NATO is boosting its eastern flank by deploying four battalions in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as of next year.
But what's even more disturbing is the major warning from the U.S. Army: that future war with Russia or China would be "extremely lethal and fast."
Or, as some mainstream reports are dubbing it: "WORLDWAR 3."
Couple that with Russia's recent preparation drills — in which 40 MILLION Russians participated in civil defense drills, emergency readiness programs, natural disaster preparation, and disaster responses — and something definitely BIGGER is brewing.
And Just What Is That SOMETHING Brewing?!
THE TRUTH REVEALED!!!
THE WAR PROPAGANDA IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK!!
NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE!
PLEASE SEEK YAHUAH AND HISTRUESON YAHUSHA — SO THAT YOU WILL BE READY TO STAND IN THAT EVILDAY!!!!!!!
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Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/russia-moves-nuke-missiles-lithuania-507826?rx=us#link_time=1475948883
Defense One: http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2016/10/future-army/132105/
AJ: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/syria-war-security-council-votes-aleppo-161008164635062.htmlEmercom (Russia): http://en.mchs.ru/mass_media/news/item/32915549/
BBC (Russia cyber attack): http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37592684

History

The first Europeans to explore North America, a Viking expedition from Greenland, called it Vinland because of the profusion of grape vines they found. The earliest wine made in what is now the United States was produced between 1562 and 1564 by French Huguenot settlers from Scuppernong grapes at a settlement near Jacksonville, Florida. In the early American colonies of Virginia and the Carolinas, wine making was an official goal laid out in the founding charters. However, settlers discovered that the wine made from the various native grapes had flavors which were unfamiliar and which they did not like.

SS United States

Built at a cost of $79.4 million ($724million in today's dollars) the ship is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the U.S. and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction. Even in her retirement, she retains the Blue Riband, the accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the highest speed.

Her construction was subsidized by the U.S. government, since she was designed to allow conversion to a troopship should the need arise.United States operated uninterrupted in transatlantic passenger service until 1969. Since 1996 she has been docked at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia.

Design and construction

Inspired by the exemplary service of the British liners RMSQueen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, which transported hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops to Europe during World War II, the U.S. government sponsored the construction of a large and fast merchant vessel that would be capable of transporting large numbers of soldiers. Designed by renowned American naval architect and marine engineer William Francis Gibbs (1886–1967), the liner's construction was a joint effort between the United States Navy and United States Lines. The U.S. government underwrote $50 million of the $78 million construction cost, with the ship's operators, United States Lines, contributing the remaining $28 million. In exchange, the ship was designed to be easily converted in times of war to a troopship with a capacity of 15,000 troops, or to a hospital ship .

United States (album)

United States is the first full length hard rock collaborative album between hard rock guitar virtuoso Paul Gilbert and singer Freddie Nelson. The collaboration has been described as a cross between Queen and Mr. Big.

God of War: Ascension

God of War: Ascension is a third-personaction-adventure video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). The game was first released on March 12, 2013, for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console. It is the seventh installment in the God of War series and prequel to the entire series. Loosely based on Greek mythology, the game is set in ancient Greece with vengeance as its central motif. The player controls the protagonist Kratos, the former servant of the God of War Ares, who tricked Kratos into killing his wife and child. In response to this tragedy, Kratos renounced Ares, breaking his blood oath to the god. Kratos was therefore imprisoned and tortured by the three Furies, guardians of honor and enforcers of punishment. Helped by the oath keeper Orkos, Kratos escapes his imprisonment and confronts the Furies to be completely free of his bond to Ares.

The gameplay is similar to previous installments, focusing on combo-based combat with the player's main weapon—the Blades of Chaos—and other weapons acquired by the new World Weapons mechanic. It continues the use of quick time events and adds a new, promptless, free-form system. Four magical attacks and a power-enhancing ability can be used as alternative combat options, and the game features puzzles and platforming elements. Ascension is the first installment to include online multiplayer features for both competitive and cooperative play. It also features a redesigned combat system, new gameplay mechanics, and downloadable content. A graphic novel prequel to the single and multiplayer modes launched as Rise of the Warrior prior to the game's release.

Oliver has said that he has full creative freedom, including free rein to criticize corporations. His initial contract with HBO was for two years with an option for extension. In February 2015, it was announced that the show has been renewed for two additional seasons of 35 episodes each. Oliver and HBO programming president Michael Lombardo have discussed extending the show from half an hour to a full hour and airing more than once a week after Oliver "gets his feet under him".

Militarization of U.S. police?

Police across the country are using military-grade arms and equipment left over from U.S. wars. CNN's BrianTodd reports.

2:37

Growing police militarization provokes outrage in communities

Growing police militarization provokes outrage in communities

Growing police militarization provokes outrage in communities

In the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown three years ago, former President Barack Obama reformed a program that transferred military equipment and weapons to local police departments. Now, PresidentDonald Trump promises to reverse that. RT’s Marina Portnaya reports.
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3:24

Are U.S. Police Too Militarized?

Are U.S. Police Too Militarized?

Are U.S. Police Too Militarized?

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"A 94-year-old German who worked as a bookkeeper at the Auschwitz death camp has been convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people and sentenced to four years in prison, in what could be one of the last big Holocaust trials."
A Final Effort to FindNaziWar Criminals
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"You can't hide from justice forever-not even for war crimes committed decades in the past, and not even when you're 93."
Should We Continue to Prosecute Nazi War Criminals?
http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/should-we-continue-to-prosecute-nazi-war-criminals/?_r=0
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On August 9th, 2014 a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. The death of Brown fueled days of unrest in Ferguson. Protestors took to the streets and were met with heavily armed police officers in armored vehicles. It wasn’t long before Ferguson, a town of 21,000, resembled a war zone. This week’s VICE Meets is a conversation about the militarization of America’s police force, with journalist and author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko.
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How Militarization Has Transformed America’s Police—For the Worse

How Militarization Has Transformed America’s Police—For the Worse

How Militarization Has Transformed America’s Police—For the Worse

Economist Olugbenga Ajilore shows the high cost of the American government’s arming of local police with military weapons, which has exacerbated lethal use-of force against black communities
Giving police military weapons doesn’t make anyone safer, argues Toledo University’s Olugbenga Ajilore. It just makes police treat people more like enemy combatants than co-members of the community.
Ajilore discusses the extensive social costs of the increased acquisition of military style-weapons by local law enforcement agencies in the U.S., which has accelerated over the past 10 years, as federal programs have granted access to surplus military items for combating terrorism and drug activity. He cites his research examining the impacts of increased police militarization—including more frequent use of lethal force, and the disproportionate effects on ethnically-fragmented communities.

Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, John Oliver explores the racial inequality in treatment by police as well as the increasing militarization of America’s local police forces.
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5:35

"Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces" (Radley Balko)

"Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces" (Radley Balko)

"Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces" (Radley Balko)

🇺🇸 Deadly Force: Arming America's Police | Fault Lines

US police forces are increasingly using military-style tactics to carry out even the most routine daily operations.
The number of SWAT teams and SWAT-style raids across the county have skyrocketed in the last few decades. SWAT raids occur at an estimated 50,000 raids per year and a majority take place for low-level crimes.
It is a trend that is being propped up by billions of federal dollars in Homeland Security grants and access to free military equipment through the Department of Defense for civilian law enforcement agencies.
In the past, police SWAT teams were only used in extreme circumstances; today, they are increasingly sent out to perform routine tasks.
Nowadays, there are tens of thousands of military-style police raids every year. But only the worst cases make the news.
Fault Lines travels to California and Tennessee to look at the effects of the increasing militarisation of US police departments.
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20:33

Space Militarization: "America's Space Power" 1997 US Air Force

Space Militarization: "America's Space Power" 1997 US Air Force

Space Militarization: "America's Space Power" 1997 US Air Force

Missiles playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLECC3BE1B25F14233
On the militarization of space, which is asserted to be inevitable.
Public domain film from the US Air Force, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarisation_of_space
The militarisation of space is the placement and development of weaponry and military technology in outer space. The early exploration of space in the mid-20th century had, in part, a military motivation, as theUnited States and the Soviet Union used it as an opportunity to demonstrate ballistic missile technology and other technologies having the potential for military application. Outer space has since been used as an operating location for military spacecraft such as imaging and communications satellites, and some ballistic missiles pass through outer space during their flight. As yet, however, weapons have not been stationed in space, with the exception of the Almaz space station and small handguns carried by Russian cosmonauts (for post-landing, pre-recovery use)...EarlyAmerican efforts included the Nike-Zeus Program, ProjectDefender, the Sentinel Program and the Safeguard Program. The late 1950s Nike-Zeus program involved firing Nike nuclear missiles against oncoming ICBMs, thus exploding nuclear warheads over the North Pole. This idea was soon scrapped and work began on Project Defender in 1958. Project Defender attempted to destroy Soviet ICBMs at launch with satellite weapon systems, which orbited over Russia. This program proved infeasible with the technology from that era. Work then began on the Sentinel Program which used anti-ballistic missiles (ABM) to shoot down incoming ICBMs.
In the late 1950s United States Air Force considered dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon to display U.S. superiority to the Soviet Union and the rest of the world (Project A119). In 1959, a feasibility study of a possible military base on the Moon (Project Horizon) was conducted. In 1958, a plan for a 21-airman underground Air Force base on the Moon by 1968 was developed (Lunex Project).
The Safeguard Program was deployed in the mid-1970s and was based on the Sentinel Program. Since the ABM treaty only allowed for construction of a single ABM facility to protect either the nation's capital city or an ICBM field, the Stanley R. MickelsenSafeguard Complex was constructed near Nekoma, North Dakota to protect the Grand Forks ICBM facility. Though it was only operational as an ABM facility for less than a year, the PerimeterAcquisitionRadar (PAR), one of Safeguard's components, was still operational as of 2005. One major problem with the Safeguard Program, and past ABM systems, was that the interceptor missiles, though state-of-the-art, required nuclear warheads to destroy incoming ICBMs...
In 1983American presidentRonald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a space-based system to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear missiles. The plan was ridiculed by some as unrealistic and expensive, and Dr. Carol Rosin nicknamed the policy "Star Wars", after the popular science-fiction movie franchise. Astronomer Carl Sagan pointed out that in order to defeat SDI, the Soviet Union had only to build more missiles, allowing them to overcome the defense by sheer force of numbers...
United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), a unified command of the United States military was created in 1985 to help institutionalize the use of outer space by the United States Armed Forces... Military space operations coordinated by USSPACECOM proved to be very valuable for the U.S.-led coalition in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
The U.S. military has relied on communications, intelligence, navigation, missile warning and weather satellite systems in areas of conflict since the early 1990s, including the Balkans, Southwest Asia and Afghanistan...
USSRThe Soviet Union was also researching innovative ways of gaining space supremacy. Two of their most notable efforts were the R-36ORB Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) and Polyus orbital weapons system.
The R-36ORB was a Soviet ICBM in the 1960s that, once launched, would go into a low Earth orbit whereupon it would de-orbit for an attack. This system would approach North America over the South Pole, thereby striking targets from the opposite direction from that to which NORAD early warning systems are oriented. The missile was phased out in January 1983 in compliance with the SALT II treaty.
The SALT II treaty (1979) prohibited the deployment of FOBS systems...

5:57

The History of Police Militarization

The History of Police Militarization

The History of Police Militarization

Why did the police start using militarized tactics and equipment on American citizens? Dr. AbbyHall says the line between law enforcement and war is getting dangerously blurry.
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2dUx6wg
LEARN MORE:
History of Police Militarization(video): Professor Abby Hall explains how the War on Drugs and War on Terror have contributed to police militarization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR0eVxB73iw
What of ‘Posse Comitatus’? (article): Gene Healy explains the blurring lines between police and the military. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/what-posse-comitatus
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko (book): Balko describes the history and implications of police militarization. https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americas/dp/1610394577
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Has World War 3BegunAlready?!
As of Saturday, October 8th, 2016, Russia has deployed what is being deemed as "nuclear-capable Iskander missiles" in Kaliningrad — which is a Russian enclave situated between Poland and Lithuania. Although this is an alleged "military drill," America and NATO are saying otherwise.
In fact, NATO members are gearing up for any "surprise situation" that could occur due to the war games at play. Poland's Defense Minister, Antoni Macierewicz, described Moscow's actions as "very alarming." Linas Linkevicius, foreign minister of Lithuania, made this statement at a Vilnius news briefing: "The deployment not only increases tensions in the region, but also possibly violates international treaties which limit deployment of ballistic missiles of range of over 500 kilometers... This is a usual Russian tactic: escalate tensions, create a discord and then expect concessions elsewhere. I would like to hope that this will not work this time." As a response, NATO is boosting its eastern flank by deploying four battalions in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as of next year.
But what's even more disturbing is the major warning from the U.S. Army: that future war with Russia or China would be "extremely lethal and fast."
Or, as some mainstream reports are dubbing it: "WORLDWAR 3."
Couple that with Russia's recent preparation drills — in which 40 MILLION Russians participated in civil defense drills, emergency readiness programs, natural disaster preparation, and disaster responses — and something definitely BIGGER is brewing.
And Just What Is That SOMETHING Brewing?!
THE TRUTH REVEALED!!!
THE WAR PROPAGANDA IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK!!
NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE!
PLEASE SEEK YAHUAH AND HISTRUESON YAHUSHA — SO THAT YOU WILL BE READY TO STAND IN THAT EVILDAY!!!!!!!
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Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/russia-moves-nuke-missiles-lithuania-507826?rx=us#link_time=1475948883
Defense One: http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2016/10/future-army/132105/
AJ: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/syria-war-security-council-votes-aleppo-161008164635062.htmlEmercom (Russia): http://en.mchs.ru/mass_media/news/item/32915549/
BBC (Russia cyber attack): http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37592684

Militarization of U.S. police?

Police across the country are using military-grade arms and equipment left over from U.S. wars. CNN's BrianTodd reports.

published: 15 Aug 2014

Growing police militarization provokes outrage in communities

In the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown three years ago, former President Barack Obama reformed a program that transferred military equipment and weapons to local police departments. Now, PresidentDonald Trump promises to reverse that. RT’s Marina Portnaya reports.
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Are U.S. Police Too Militarized?

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On August 9th, 2014 a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. The death of Brown fueled days of unrest in Ferguson. Protestors took to the streets and were met with heavily armed police officers in armored vehicles. It wasn’t long before Ferguson, a town of 21,000, resembled a war zone. This week’s VICE Meets is a conversation about the militarization of America’s police force, with journalist and author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko.
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How Militarization Has Transformed America’s Police—For the Worse

Economist Olugbenga Ajilore shows the high cost of the American government’s arming of local police with military weapons, which has exacerbated lethal use-of force against black communities
Giving police military weapons doesn’t make anyone safer, argues Toledo University’s Olugbenga Ajilore. It just makes police treat people more like enemy combatants than co-members of the community.
Ajilore discusses the extensive social costs of the increased acquisition of military style-weapons by local law enforcement agencies in the U.S., which has accelerated over the past 10 years, as federal programs have granted access to surplus military items for combating terrorism and drug activity. He cites his research examining the impacts of increased police militarization—including more frequent ...

Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, John Oliver explores the racial inequality in treatment by police as well as the increasing militarization of America’s local police forces.
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published: 18 Aug 2014

"Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces" (Radley Balko)

🇺🇸 Deadly Force: Arming America's Police | Fault Lines

US police forces are increasingly using military-style tactics to carry out even the most routine daily operations.
The number of SWAT teams and SWAT-style raids across the county have skyrocketed in the last few decades. SWAT raids occur at an estimated 50,000 raids per year and a majority take place for low-level crimes.
It is a trend that is being propped up by billions of federal dollars in Homeland Security grants and access to free military equipment through the Department of Defense for civilian law enforcement agencies.
In the past, police SWAT teams were only used in extreme circumstances; today, they are increasingly sent out to perform routine tasks.
Nowadays, there are tens of thousands of military-style police raids every year. But only the worst cases make the news.
Faul...

published: 05 Mar 2014

Space Militarization: "America's Space Power" 1997 US Air Force

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On the militarization of space, which is asserted to be inevitable.
Public domain film from the US Air Force, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
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The militarisation of space is the placement and development of weaponry and military technology in outer space. The early exploration of space in th...

published: 17 Mar 2016

The History of Police Militarization

Why did the police start using militarized tactics and equipment on American citizens? Dr. AbbyHall says the line between law enforcement and war is getting dangerously blurry.
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What of ‘Posse Comitatus’? (article): Gene Healy explains the blurring lines between police and the military. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/what-posse-comitatus
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko (book): Balko describes the history and implications of police militarization. https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrio...

In the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown three years ago, former President Barack Obama reformed a program that transferred military equipment and weapons to local police departments. Now, PresidentDonald Trump promises to reverse that. RT’s Marina Portnaya reports.
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"A 94-year-old German who worked as a bookkeeper at the Auschwitz death camp has been convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people and sentenced to four years in prison, in what could be one of the last big Holocaust trials."
A Final Effort to FindNaziWar Criminals
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Should We Continue to Prosecute Nazi War Criminals?
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On August 9th, 2014 a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. The death of Brown fueled days of unrest in Ferguson. Protestors took to the streets and were met with heavily armed police officers in armored vehicles. It wasn’t long before Ferguson, a town of 21,000, resembled a war zone. This week’s VICE Meets is a conversation about the militarization of America’s police force, with journalist and author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko.
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On August 9th, 2014 a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. The death of Brown fueled days of unrest in Ferguson. Protestors took to the streets and were met with heavily armed police officers in armored vehicles. It wasn’t long before Ferguson, a town of 21,000, resembled a war zone. This week’s VICE Meets is a conversation about the militarization of America’s police force, with journalist and author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko.
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Economist Olugbenga Ajilore shows the high cost of the American government’s arming of local police with military weapons, which has exacerbated lethal use-of force against black communities
Giving police military weapons doesn’t make anyone safer, argues Toledo University’s Olugbenga Ajilore. It just makes police treat people more like enemy combatants than co-members of the community.
Ajilore discusses the extensive social costs of the increased acquisition of military style-weapons by local law enforcement agencies in the U.S., which has accelerated over the past 10 years, as federal programs have granted access to surplus military items for combating terrorism and drug activity. He cites his research examining the impacts of increased police militarization—including more frequent use of lethal force, and the disproportionate effects on ethnically-fragmented communities.

Economist Olugbenga Ajilore shows the high cost of the American government’s arming of local police with military weapons, which has exacerbated lethal use-of force against black communities
Giving police military weapons doesn’t make anyone safer, argues Toledo University’s Olugbenga Ajilore. It just makes police treat people more like enemy combatants than co-members of the community.
Ajilore discusses the extensive social costs of the increased acquisition of military style-weapons by local law enforcement agencies in the U.S., which has accelerated over the past 10 years, as federal programs have granted access to surplus military items for combating terrorism and drug activity. He cites his research examining the impacts of increased police militarization—including more frequent use of lethal force, and the disproportionate effects on ethnically-fragmented communities.

In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, John Oliver explores the racial inequality in treatment by police as well as the increasing militarization of America’s local police forces.
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🇺🇸 Deadly Force: Arming America's Police | Fault Lines

US police forces are increasingly using military-style tactics to carry out even the most routine daily operations.
The number of SWAT teams and SWAT-style rai...

US police forces are increasingly using military-style tactics to carry out even the most routine daily operations.
The number of SWAT teams and SWAT-style raids across the county have skyrocketed in the last few decades. SWAT raids occur at an estimated 50,000 raids per year and a majority take place for low-level crimes.
It is a trend that is being propped up by billions of federal dollars in Homeland Security grants and access to free military equipment through the Department of Defense for civilian law enforcement agencies.
In the past, police SWAT teams were only used in extreme circumstances; today, they are increasingly sent out to perform routine tasks.
Nowadays, there are tens of thousands of military-style police raids every year. But only the worst cases make the news.
Fault Lines travels to California and Tennessee to look at the effects of the increasing militarisation of US police departments.
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US police forces are increasingly using military-style tactics to carry out even the most routine daily operations.
The number of SWAT teams and SWAT-style raids across the county have skyrocketed in the last few decades. SWAT raids occur at an estimated 50,000 raids per year and a majority take place for low-level crimes.
It is a trend that is being propped up by billions of federal dollars in Homeland Security grants and access to free military equipment through the Department of Defense for civilian law enforcement agencies.
In the past, police SWAT teams were only used in extreme circumstances; today, they are increasingly sent out to perform routine tasks.
Nowadays, there are tens of thousands of military-style police raids every year. But only the worst cases make the news.
Fault Lines travels to California and Tennessee to look at the effects of the increasing militarisation of US police departments.
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On the militarization of space, which is asserted to be inevitable.
Public domain film from the US Air Force, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarisation_of_space
The militarisation of space is the placement and development of weaponry and military technology in outer space. The early exploration of space in the mid-20th century had, in part, a military motivation, as theUnited States and the Soviet Union used it as an opportunity to demonstrate ballistic missile technology and other technologies having the potential for military application. Outer space has since been used as an operating location for military spacecraft such as imaging and communications satellites, and some ballistic missiles pass through outer space during their flight. As yet, however, weapons have not been stationed in space, with the exception of the Almaz space station and small handguns carried by Russian cosmonauts (for post-landing, pre-recovery use)...EarlyAmerican efforts included the Nike-Zeus Program, ProjectDefender, the Sentinel Program and the Safeguard Program. The late 1950s Nike-Zeus program involved firing Nike nuclear missiles against oncoming ICBMs, thus exploding nuclear warheads over the North Pole. This idea was soon scrapped and work began on Project Defender in 1958. Project Defender attempted to destroy Soviet ICBMs at launch with satellite weapon systems, which orbited over Russia. This program proved infeasible with the technology from that era. Work then began on the Sentinel Program which used anti-ballistic missiles (ABM) to shoot down incoming ICBMs.
In the late 1950s United States Air Force considered dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon to display U.S. superiority to the Soviet Union and the rest of the world (Project A119). In 1959, a feasibility study of a possible military base on the Moon (Project Horizon) was conducted. In 1958, a plan for a 21-airman underground Air Force base on the Moon by 1968 was developed (Lunex Project).
The Safeguard Program was deployed in the mid-1970s and was based on the Sentinel Program. Since the ABM treaty only allowed for construction of a single ABM facility to protect either the nation's capital city or an ICBM field, the Stanley R. MickelsenSafeguard Complex was constructed near Nekoma, North Dakota to protect the Grand Forks ICBM facility. Though it was only operational as an ABM facility for less than a year, the PerimeterAcquisitionRadar (PAR), one of Safeguard's components, was still operational as of 2005. One major problem with the Safeguard Program, and past ABM systems, was that the interceptor missiles, though state-of-the-art, required nuclear warheads to destroy incoming ICBMs...
In 1983American presidentRonald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a space-based system to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear missiles. The plan was ridiculed by some as unrealistic and expensive, and Dr. Carol Rosin nicknamed the policy "Star Wars", after the popular science-fiction movie franchise. Astronomer Carl Sagan pointed out that in order to defeat SDI, the Soviet Union had only to build more missiles, allowing them to overcome the defense by sheer force of numbers...
United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), a unified command of the United States military was created in 1985 to help institutionalize the use of outer space by the United States Armed Forces... Military space operations coordinated by USSPACECOM proved to be very valuable for the U.S.-led coalition in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
The U.S. military has relied on communications, intelligence, navigation, missile warning and weather satellite systems in areas of conflict since the early 1990s, including the Balkans, Southwest Asia and Afghanistan...
USSRThe Soviet Union was also researching innovative ways of gaining space supremacy. Two of their most notable efforts were the R-36ORB Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) and Polyus orbital weapons system.
The R-36ORB was a Soviet ICBM in the 1960s that, once launched, would go into a low Earth orbit whereupon it would de-orbit for an attack. This system would approach North America over the South Pole, thereby striking targets from the opposite direction from that to which NORAD early warning systems are oriented. The missile was phased out in January 1983 in compliance with the SALT II treaty.
The SALT II treaty (1979) prohibited the deployment of FOBS systems...

Missiles playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLECC3BE1B25F14233
On the militarization of space, which is asserted to be inevitable.
Public domain film from the US Air Force, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarisation_of_space
The militarisation of space is the placement and development of weaponry and military technology in outer space. The early exploration of space in the mid-20th century had, in part, a military motivation, as theUnited States and the Soviet Union used it as an opportunity to demonstrate ballistic missile technology and other technologies having the potential for military application. Outer space has since been used as an operating location for military spacecraft such as imaging and communications satellites, and some ballistic missiles pass through outer space during their flight. As yet, however, weapons have not been stationed in space, with the exception of the Almaz space station and small handguns carried by Russian cosmonauts (for post-landing, pre-recovery use)...EarlyAmerican efforts included the Nike-Zeus Program, ProjectDefender, the Sentinel Program and the Safeguard Program. The late 1950s Nike-Zeus program involved firing Nike nuclear missiles against oncoming ICBMs, thus exploding nuclear warheads over the North Pole. This idea was soon scrapped and work began on Project Defender in 1958. Project Defender attempted to destroy Soviet ICBMs at launch with satellite weapon systems, which orbited over Russia. This program proved infeasible with the technology from that era. Work then began on the Sentinel Program which used anti-ballistic missiles (ABM) to shoot down incoming ICBMs.
In the late 1950s United States Air Force considered dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon to display U.S. superiority to the Soviet Union and the rest of the world (Project A119). In 1959, a feasibility study of a possible military base on the Moon (Project Horizon) was conducted. In 1958, a plan for a 21-airman underground Air Force base on the Moon by 1968 was developed (Lunex Project).
The Safeguard Program was deployed in the mid-1970s and was based on the Sentinel Program. Since the ABM treaty only allowed for construction of a single ABM facility to protect either the nation's capital city or an ICBM field, the Stanley R. MickelsenSafeguard Complex was constructed near Nekoma, North Dakota to protect the Grand Forks ICBM facility. Though it was only operational as an ABM facility for less than a year, the PerimeterAcquisitionRadar (PAR), one of Safeguard's components, was still operational as of 2005. One major problem with the Safeguard Program, and past ABM systems, was that the interceptor missiles, though state-of-the-art, required nuclear warheads to destroy incoming ICBMs...
In 1983American presidentRonald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a space-based system to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear missiles. The plan was ridiculed by some as unrealistic and expensive, and Dr. Carol Rosin nicknamed the policy "Star Wars", after the popular science-fiction movie franchise. Astronomer Carl Sagan pointed out that in order to defeat SDI, the Soviet Union had only to build more missiles, allowing them to overcome the defense by sheer force of numbers...
United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), a unified command of the United States military was created in 1985 to help institutionalize the use of outer space by the United States Armed Forces... Military space operations coordinated by USSPACECOM proved to be very valuable for the U.S.-led coalition in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
The U.S. military has relied on communications, intelligence, navigation, missile warning and weather satellite systems in areas of conflict since the early 1990s, including the Balkans, Southwest Asia and Afghanistan...
USSRThe Soviet Union was also researching innovative ways of gaining space supremacy. Two of their most notable efforts were the R-36ORB Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) and Polyus orbital weapons system.
The R-36ORB was a Soviet ICBM in the 1960s that, once launched, would go into a low Earth orbit whereupon it would de-orbit for an attack. This system would approach North America over the South Pole, thereby striking targets from the opposite direction from that to which NORAD early warning systems are oriented. The missile was phased out in January 1983 in compliance with the SALT II treaty.
The SALT II treaty (1979) prohibited the deployment of FOBS systems...

The History of Police Militarization

Why did the police start using militarized tactics and equipment on American citizens? Dr. AbbyHall says the line between law enforcement and war is getting da...

Why did the police start using militarized tactics and equipment on American citizens? Dr. AbbyHall says the line between law enforcement and war is getting dangerously blurry.
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History of Police Militarization(video): Professor Abby Hall explains how the War on Drugs and War on Terror have contributed to police militarization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR0eVxB73iw
What of ‘Posse Comitatus’? (article): Gene Healy explains the blurring lines between police and the military. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/what-posse-comitatus
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko (book): Balko describes the history and implications of police militarization. https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americas/dp/1610394577
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Why did the police start using militarized tactics and equipment on American citizens? Dr. AbbyHall says the line between law enforcement and war is getting dangerously blurry.
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2dUx6wg
LEARN MORE:
History of Police Militarization(video): Professor Abby Hall explains how the War on Drugs and War on Terror have contributed to police militarization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR0eVxB73iw
What of ‘Posse Comitatus’? (article): Gene Healy explains the blurring lines between police and the military. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/what-posse-comitatus
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko (book): Balko describes the history and implications of police militarization. https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americas/dp/1610394577
TRANSCRIPT:
For a full transcript please visit: http://www.learnliberty.org/videos/the-history-of-p…e-militarization/
LEARN LIBERTY:
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Has World War 3BegunAlready?!
As of Saturday, October 8th, 2016, Russia has deployed what is being deemed as "nuclear-capable Iskander missiles" in Kaliningrad — which is a Russian enclave situated between Poland and Lithuania. Although this is an alleged "military drill," America and NATO are saying otherwise.
In fact, NATO members are gearing up for any "surprise situation" that could occur due to the war games at play. Poland's Defense Minister, Antoni Macierewicz, described Moscow's actions as "very alarming." Linas Linkevicius, foreign minister of Lithuania, made this statement at a Vilnius news briefing: "The deployment not only increases tensions in the region, but also possibly violates international treaties which limit deployment of ballistic missiles of range of over 500 kilometers... This is a usual Russian tactic: escalate tensions, create a discord and then expect concessions elsewhere. I would like to hope that this will not work this time." As a response, NATO is boosting its eastern flank by deploying four battalions in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as of next year.
But what's even more disturbing is the major warning from the U.S. Army: that future war with Russia or China would be "extremely lethal and fast."
Or, as some mainstream reports are dubbing it: "WORLDWAR 3."
Couple that with Russia's recent preparation drills — in which 40 MILLION Russians participated in civil defense drills, emergency readiness programs, natural disaster preparation, and disaster responses — and something definitely BIGGER is brewing.
And Just What Is That SOMETHING Brewing?!
THE TRUTH REVEALED!!!
THE WAR PROPAGANDA IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK!!
NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE!
PLEASE SEEK YAHUAH AND HISTRUESON YAHUSHA — SO THAT YOU WILL BE READY TO STAND IN THAT EVILDAY!!!!!!!
ALSO SEE — Russia Preparing Like Never Before! https://youtu.be/P3cSfvov8A8
ALSO SEE — Obama Preparing For WAR?!?! https://youtu.be/g8oLHdQ3CYE
LEARN MORE!
BBC (Russian missiles deployed in Kaliningrad): http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37597075
DW: http://www.dw.com/en/russia-moves-nuclear-missiles-onto-natos-doorstep/a-35997378
Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/russia-moves-nuke-missiles-lithuania-507826?rx=us#link_time=1475948883
Defense One: http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2016/10/future-army/132105/
AJ: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/syria-war-security-council-votes-aleppo-161008164635062.htmlEmercom (Russia): http://en.mchs.ru/mass_media/news/item/32915549/
BBC (Russia cyber attack): http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37592684

Has World War 3BegunAlready?!
As of Saturday, October 8th, 2016, Russia has deployed what is being deemed as "nuclear-capable Iskander missiles" in Kaliningrad — which is a Russian enclave situated between Poland and Lithuania. Although this is an alleged "military drill," America and NATO are saying otherwise.
In fact, NATO members are gearing up for any "surprise situation" that could occur due to the war games at play. Poland's Defense Minister, Antoni Macierewicz, described Moscow's actions as "very alarming." Linas Linkevicius, foreign minister of Lithuania, made this statement at a Vilnius news briefing: "The deployment not only increases tensions in the region, but also possibly violates international treaties which limit deployment of ballistic missiles of range of over 500 kilometers... This is a usual Russian tactic: escalate tensions, create a discord and then expect concessions elsewhere. I would like to hope that this will not work this time." As a response, NATO is boosting its eastern flank by deploying four battalions in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as of next year.
But what's even more disturbing is the major warning from the U.S. Army: that future war with Russia or China would be "extremely lethal and fast."
Or, as some mainstream reports are dubbing it: "WORLDWAR 3."
Couple that with Russia's recent preparation drills — in which 40 MILLION Russians participated in civil defense drills, emergency readiness programs, natural disaster preparation, and disaster responses — and something definitely BIGGER is brewing.
And Just What Is That SOMETHING Brewing?!
THE TRUTH REVEALED!!!
THE WAR PROPAGANDA IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK!!
NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE!
PLEASE SEEK YAHUAH AND HISTRUESON YAHUSHA — SO THAT YOU WILL BE READY TO STAND IN THAT EVILDAY!!!!!!!
ALSO SEE — Russia Preparing Like Never Before! https://youtu.be/P3cSfvov8A8
ALSO SEE — Obama Preparing For WAR?!?! https://youtu.be/g8oLHdQ3CYE
LEARN MORE!
BBC (Russian missiles deployed in Kaliningrad): http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37597075
DW: http://www.dw.com/en/russia-moves-nuclear-missiles-onto-natos-doorstep/a-35997378
Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/russia-moves-nuke-missiles-lithuania-507826?rx=us#link_time=1475948883
Defense One: http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2016/10/future-army/132105/
AJ: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/syria-war-security-council-votes-aleppo-161008164635062.htmlEmercom (Russia): http://en.mchs.ru/mass_media/news/item/32915549/
BBC (Russia cyber attack): http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37592684

Growing police militarization provokes outrage in communities

In the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown three years ago, former President Barack Obama reformed a program that transferred military equipment and weapons to local police departments. Now, PresidentDonald Trump promises to reverse that. RT’s Marina Portnaya reports.
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Are U.S. Police Too Militarized?

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In 2011, a German court opened the door for the prosecution of all ex-Nazis. Here's a look at the final push for justice before it's too late.
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Former Auschwitz guard Oskar Gröning jailed over mass murder
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/15/auschwitz-guard-oskar-groening-jailed-over-mass-murder
"A 94-year-old German who worked as a bookkeeper at the Auschwitz death camp has been convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people and sentenced to four years in prison, in what could be one of the last big Holocaust trials."
A Final Effort to FindNaziWar Criminals
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130507-nazi-war-criminal-holocaust-auschwitz-hans-lipschis-simon-wiesenthal-center-demjanjuk/
"You can't hide from justice forever-not even for war crimes committed decades in the past, and not even when you're 93."
Should We Continue to Prosecute Nazi War Criminals?
http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/should-we-continue-to-prosecute-nazi-war-criminals/?_r=0
"The recent conviction of a 93-year-old Auschwitz guard reignited a debate about prosecuting the remaining few Nazi war criminals."
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On August 9th, 2014 a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. The death of Brown fueled days of unrest in Ferguson. Protestors took to the streets and were met with heavily armed police officers in armored vehicles. It wasn’t long before Ferguson, a town of 21,000, resembled a war zone. This week’s VICE Meets is a conversation about the militarization of America’s police force, with journalist and author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko.
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How Militarization Has Transformed America’s Police—For the Worse

Economist Olugbenga Ajilore shows the high cost of the American government’s arming of local police with military weapons, which has exacerbated lethal use-of force against black communities
Giving police military weapons doesn’t make anyone safer, argues Toledo University’s Olugbenga Ajilore. It just makes police treat people more like enemy combatants than co-members of the community.
Ajilore discusses the extensive social costs of the increased acquisition of military style-weapons by local law enforcement agencies in the U.S., which has accelerated over the past 10 years, as federal programs have granted access to surplus military items for combating terrorism and drug activity. He cites his research examining the impacts of increased police militarization—including more frequent use of lethal force, and the disproportionate effects on ethnically-fragmented communities.

Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, John Oliver explores the racial inequality in treatment by police as well as the increasing militarization of America’s local police forces.
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🇺🇸 Deadly Force: Arming America's Police | Fault Lines

US police forces are increasingly using military-style tactics to carry out even the most routine daily operations.
The number of SWAT teams and SWAT-style raids across the county have skyrocketed in the last few decades. SWAT raids occur at an estimated 50,000 raids per year and a majority take place for low-level crimes.
It is a trend that is being propped up by billions of federal dollars in Homeland Security grants and access to free military equipment through the Department of Defense for civilian law enforcement agencies.
In the past, police SWAT teams were only used in extreme circumstances; today, they are increasingly sent out to perform routine tasks.
Nowadays, there are tens of thousands of military-style police raids every year. But only the worst cases make the news.
Fault Lines travels to California and Tennessee to look at the effects of the increasing militarisation of US police departments.
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Space Militarization: "America's Space Power" 1997 US Air Force

Missiles playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLECC3BE1B25F14233
On the militarization of space, which is asserted to be inevitable.
Public domain film from the US Air Force, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarisation_of_space
The militarisation of space is the placement and development of weaponry and military technology in outer space. The early exploration of space in the mid-20th century had, in part, a military motivation, as theUnited States and the Soviet Union used it as an opportunity to demonstrate ballistic missile technology and other technologies having the potential for military application. Outer space has since been used as an operating location for military spacecraft such as imaging and communications satellites, and some ballistic missiles pass through outer space during their flight. As yet, however, weapons have not been stationed in space, with the exception of the Almaz space station and small handguns carried by Russian cosmonauts (for post-landing, pre-recovery use)...EarlyAmerican efforts included the Nike-Zeus Program, ProjectDefender, the Sentinel Program and the Safeguard Program. The late 1950s Nike-Zeus program involved firing Nike nuclear missiles against oncoming ICBMs, thus exploding nuclear warheads over the North Pole. This idea was soon scrapped and work began on Project Defender in 1958. Project Defender attempted to destroy Soviet ICBMs at launch with satellite weapon systems, which orbited over Russia. This program proved infeasible with the technology from that era. Work then began on the Sentinel Program which used anti-ballistic missiles (ABM) to shoot down incoming ICBMs.
In the late 1950s United States Air Force considered dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon to display U.S. superiority to the Soviet Union and the rest of the world (Project A119). In 1959, a feasibility study of a possible military base on the Moon (Project Horizon) was conducted. In 1958, a plan for a 21-airman underground Air Force base on the Moon by 1968 was developed (Lunex Project).
The Safeguard Program was deployed in the mid-1970s and was based on the Sentinel Program. Since the ABM treaty only allowed for construction of a single ABM facility to protect either the nation's capital city or an ICBM field, the Stanley R. MickelsenSafeguard Complex was constructed near Nekoma, North Dakota to protect the Grand Forks ICBM facility. Though it was only operational as an ABM facility for less than a year, the PerimeterAcquisitionRadar (PAR), one of Safeguard's components, was still operational as of 2005. One major problem with the Safeguard Program, and past ABM systems, was that the interceptor missiles, though state-of-the-art, required nuclear warheads to destroy incoming ICBMs...
In 1983American presidentRonald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a space-based system to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear missiles. The plan was ridiculed by some as unrealistic and expensive, and Dr. Carol Rosin nicknamed the policy "Star Wars", after the popular science-fiction movie franchise. Astronomer Carl Sagan pointed out that in order to defeat SDI, the Soviet Union had only to build more missiles, allowing them to overcome the defense by sheer force of numbers...
United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), a unified command of the United States military was created in 1985 to help institutionalize the use of outer space by the United States Armed Forces... Military space operations coordinated by USSPACECOM proved to be very valuable for the U.S.-led coalition in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
The U.S. military has relied on communications, intelligence, navigation, missile warning and weather satellite systems in areas of conflict since the early 1990s, including the Balkans, Southwest Asia and Afghanistan...
USSRThe Soviet Union was also researching innovative ways of gaining space supremacy. Two of their most notable efforts were the R-36ORB Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) and Polyus orbital weapons system.
The R-36ORB was a Soviet ICBM in the 1960s that, once launched, would go into a low Earth orbit whereupon it would de-orbit for an attack. This system would approach North America over the South Pole, thereby striking targets from the opposite direction from that to which NORAD early warning systems are oriented. The missile was phased out in January 1983 in compliance with the SALT II treaty.
The SALT II treaty (1979) prohibited the deployment of FOBS systems...

The History of Police Militarization

Why did the police start using militarized tactics and equipment on American citizens? Dr. AbbyHall says the line between law enforcement and war is getting dangerously blurry.
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2dUx6wg
LEARN MORE:
History of Police Militarization(video): Professor Abby Hall explains how the War on Drugs and War on Terror have contributed to police militarization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR0eVxB73iw
What of ‘Posse Comitatus’? (article): Gene Healy explains the blurring lines between police and the military. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/what-posse-comitatus
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko (book): Balko describes the history and implications of police militarization. https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americas/dp/1610394577
TRANSCRIPT:
For a full transcript please visit: http://www.learnliberty.org/videos/the-history-of-p…e-militarization/
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Has World War 3BegunAlready?!
As of Saturday, October 8th, 2016, Russia has deployed what is being deemed as "nuclear-capable Iskander missiles" in Kaliningrad — which is a Russian enclave situated between Poland and Lithuania. Although this is an alleged "military drill," America and NATO are saying otherwise.
In fact, NATO members are gearing up for any "surprise situation" that could occur due to the war games at play. Poland's Defense Minister, Antoni Macierewicz, described Moscow's actions as "very alarming." Linas Linkevicius, foreign minister of Lithuania, made this statement at a Vilnius news briefing: "The deployment not only increases tensions in the region, but also possibly violates international treaties which limit deployment of ballistic missiles of range of over 500 kilometers... This is a usual Russian tactic: escalate tensions, create a discord and then expect concessions elsewhere. I would like to hope that this will not work this time." As a response, NATO is boosting its eastern flank by deploying four battalions in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as of next year.
But what's even more disturbing is the major warning from the U.S. Army: that future war with Russia or China would be "extremely lethal and fast."
Or, as some mainstream reports are dubbing it: "WORLDWAR 3."
Couple that with Russia's recent preparation drills — in which 40 MILLION Russians participated in civil defense drills, emergency readiness programs, natural disaster preparation, and disaster responses — and something definitely BIGGER is brewing.
And Just What Is That SOMETHING Brewing?!
THE TRUTH REVEALED!!!
THE WAR PROPAGANDA IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK!!
NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE!
PLEASE SEEK YAHUAH AND HISTRUESON YAHUSHA — SO THAT YOU WILL BE READY TO STAND IN THAT EVILDAY!!!!!!!
ALSO SEE — Russia Preparing Like Never Before! https://youtu.be/P3cSfvov8A8
ALSO SEE — Obama Preparing For WAR?!?! https://youtu.be/g8oLHdQ3CYE
LEARN MORE!
BBC (Russian missiles deployed in Kaliningrad): http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37597075
DW: http://www.dw.com/en/russia-moves-nuclear-missiles-onto-natos-doorstep/a-35997378
Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/russia-moves-nuke-missiles-lithuania-507826?rx=us#link_time=1475948883
Defense One: http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2016/10/future-army/132105/
AJ: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/syria-war-security-council-votes-aleppo-161008164635062.htmlEmercom (Russia): http://en.mchs.ru/mass_media/news/item/32915549/
BBC (Russia cyber attack): http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37592684

History

The first Europeans to explore North America, a Viking expedition from Greenland, called it Vinland because of the profusion of grape vines they found. The earliest wine made in what is now the United States was produced between 1562 and 1564 by French Huguenot settlers from Scuppernong grapes at a settlement near Jacksonville, Florida. In the early American colonies of Virginia and the Carolinas, wine making was an official goal laid out in the founding charters. However, settlers discovered that the wine made from the various native grapes had flavors which were unfamiliar and which they did not like.

Fantasies of absolute control, racial cleansing, unchecked militarism and class warfare are at the heart of an American imagination that has turned lethal ... For example, the Trump administration is lifting federal protections for thousands of waterways and wetlands, compromising the safety of water for millions of Americans....

Editor's Note. The invasion, occupation and liberation of Guam had a lasting effect on the island's people, government and institutions ... We'll share stories from survivors, family members and historians ... More ... More ... The destruction it has caused to our diets and physical health is yet another negative impact of global Americanmilitarism,” Perez said ... ....

Race is among the more tortured axes of American social relations ... The relationship between ‘clearing the land’ through genocide in the Americas and the rise of American industrial and military hegemony hardly required an analytical leap ... It has also been the rarely uttered subtext of American foreign policy and militarism for the last two centuries....

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Race is among the more tortured axes of American social relations ... The relationship between ‘clearing the land’ through genocide in the Americas and the rise of American industrial and military hegemony hardly required an analytical leap ... It has also been the rarely uttered subtext of American foreign policy and militarism for the last two centuries....